Approaches to Sensory Landscape Archaeology [PDF]
As the medium through which humans interact with the physical world, senses are crucial to explore when trying to understand the beings that embody them.
Faycurry, Jessica
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The body as instrument: tissue conducted multimodal audio-tactile spatial music. [PDF]
We describe early progress in exploring the compositional potential for multimodal music of a multi-transducer audio-plus-vibrotactile apparatus, utilising ambisonics encoding; the tactile component is an incidental by-product, carried by the same ...
Brown, Michael +2 more
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Historical Acoustics: Relationships between People and Sound over Time [PDF]
This book is a collection of contributions to the Special Issue “Historical Acoustics: Relationships between People and Sound over Time”. The research presented here aims to explore the origins of acoustics and examine the relationships that have evolved
Aletta, Francesco, Kang, Jian
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Ushering in the Soundscape: For a Poetics of Listening across Time and Space [PDF]
Remapping the literary canon through listening practices means giving the aural dimension of poetry, prose, or simply language a fascinating chance to match the wonders of visual representation.
Calanchi, Alessandra
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The Acoustics of Contiones, or How Many Romans Could Have Heard Speakers
Contiones – assemblies during which important Roman politicians discussed the laws proposed at the People’s Assemblies as well as candidates for the offices and presented their opinions to the Roman people – are considered by some scholars as one of the ...
Kopij Kamil, Pilch Adam
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The 2015 acoustical field survey on and around the central plaza platform (“ushnu”) at the Inca administrative complex of Huánuco Pampa advances understanding of Inca communication dynamics and innovates archaeoacoustical methodologies.
Miriam A. Kolar +2 more
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The acoustic and auditory contexts of human behavior [PDF]
Sound is a crucial component of the human communicative toolkit (Cross and Woodruff 2009); however, as a topic of research, it has been relatively neglected in archaeological method and theory.
Blake, EC, Cross, I
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Acoustic effects at prehistoric landscapes: an archaeoacoustics analysis of rock art sites from Western Mediterranean [PDF]
Many pre-state societies around the world give special importance to places where distinctive acoustic effects are generated. These places often receive special treatment including the production of rock paintings in them. In the Western Mediterranean,
A. FARINA +5 more
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What Is Cooking in the Pots of the Chiloe Archipelago? A Multiproxy Approach to Determine the Presence of Horticultural Groups [PDF]
What Is Cooking in the Pots of the Chiloe Archipelago? A Multiproxy Approach to Determine the Presence of Horticultural Groups Marine hunter-gatherers groups have occupied the northern-Patagonian channels since ~6000 yrs cal BP.
Belmar, Carolina +4 more
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The soundscapes of Baja California Sur: preliminary results from the Cañón de Santa Teresa rock art landscape [PDF]
This article argues that the recent emphasis on quantitative methods should also include the application of rigorous science-based methodologies for the study of sound and acoustics among past communities.
Díaz-Andreu, Margarita +5 more
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